Chapter six

In her excitement Snow simply shrugged off Regina's reluctance to help, but Henry saw straight through it. He prayed to anyone that would listen that this plan would fail, and that he could try and convince his mom to give it a shot. So he had happily told Snow and Charming that they should go to the Rabbit Hole as quickly as possible.

"You know you can't go in there right?" Charming asked his grandson.

"It's one in the afternoon, they serve lunch, of course I'm allowed in, Hook and Leroy will be the only ones drinking anyway," Henry pointed out.

"Why do you want to help so badly anyway? We could just let you know what happens," Snow asked.

"I haven't seen Emma in three weeks, I miss her, even if this doesn't work at least I get to see her with my own eyes," it wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth, he actually wanted to see the pirate get rejected.

"You probably won't like what you see," Snow sighed.

"No matter what she's like she is still my mom, and I think that you should stop acting so afraid, she's still your daughter," Henry was trying to avoid whinnying at this point.

"I'm not sure how much of our daughter is left, Henry she tried to take your grandmas heart."

Henry sighed, sick of having same argument over and over, "can we just go and get Hook?"

They both nodded in unison and proceeded inside the local watering hole without further discussion. The truth was that they were both afraid that nothing that they did would work, and that Emma would live an immortal life hating them.


"Rum," Hook called to the bar keep, who just rolled his eyes before he grabbed the bottle that he kept next to him for the past three weeks.

"He meant to ask for a glass of water," Charming announced, he was given a doubtful look before a glass of water was placed in front of the pirate.

Hook looked unable to comprehend what happened to his precious rum, "I meant rum," he called, but the soft drink remained. "What do you want, mate, can't you see I'm busy?"

Bypassing the pirates comments, Snow got straight to the point, "we think we have a way to help Emma."

"And why would I want to help that monster?" He asked nonchalantly.

"Because you love her and she loves you!" Charming replied angrily.

"You're forgetting, mate, that it is the Dark One who took everything from me, my hand, my Milah, why would I disgrace her memory to try and help the newest crocodile," he sneered.

"Because she is Emma, not just the Dark One," Snow pleaded.

"And what is it you would have me do."

"Break the curse with True Love's Kiss, if you did that then she would no longer be the Dark One, she would go back to who she was before the darkness," Charming answered, he was becoming less and less sure that this was a good idea by the second.

Hook considered this for a second, "I suppose you're right, with my kiss she will be free, and we could pick up where we left of."

Henry's sigh of annoyance went unnoticed.


A few hours later, once Hook had sobered up as much as possible, the four of them arrived at the loft. Charming had decided that no matter the risk he wanted to be able to see his daughter, so he and Snow stood side by side with Henry behind them, as Snow held up the dagger.

"Emma, we summon you," Snow announced, the fact that she was unable to say Dark One not going unnoticed by the group.

"You know I have a cell phone right?" came from the couch, they all looked over to see Emma laying across it reading a dark tome.

Henry caught his breath the moment that he saw her, she was just so different to what he remembered, she was more like Regina had been before the curse had broken, but he was determined not to hurt her in the same that he hurt his mom. He had to be a better son if his moms were going to get their happy ending.

"M-ma," he stuttered, trying to walk closer, only to be stopped by Charming.

At the sound of Henry's voice Emma put the book down, staring at the son that she hated in one moment and missed deeply the next, for the first time in weeks she found herself unable to form words.

Swallowing hard, Emma turned to Snow and mockingly asked, "how may I serve you master?"

Snow nearly choked on the tears that were streaming down her face, as she looked at Hook all she could do was hope that this whole ordeal would be over in a few moments.

"I command you to kiss Killian," she announced after a brief pause.

For the first time Emma seemed to notice that Hook was there, and she burst out laughing, "still believe that he is my true love?"

"What?" Hook asked indignantly.

"It's calling settling captain, we can't all end up with our perfect match like the great Snow White and Prince Charming."

"It's just the darkness talking," Charming whispered to his wife.

"I command you to kiss Killian," Snow tried again, this time with more conviction.

"Whatever," Emma replied, as her link to the dagger forced her to move over to the pirate. Placing her hands on his shoulders and with his arm snaking around her waist, she leaned in and planted a firm closed mouth kiss on him. They all waited with bated breath, but nothing happened, a fact that Hook didn't seem to notice, as he tried to pull her in for another kiss. Before he even came close a blast of darkness sent him back, hitting the wall violently.

"The command was one kiss, mate, can I go now?" Emma asked, not even in turning around to see her family's looks of despair.

Snow simply loosened her grip on the dagger, allowing her to leave. For a moment Emma considered whether this was an opportunity to get what she wanted, but thought better of it considering Snow held the dagger and Charming was basically cowering behind her, so she just left.

As Hook stood he grumbled something about rum and left without another word.